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sad sacks

sad sacks is the plural of sad sack.

Meaning of sad sack

Noun

sad sack (plural sad sacks)

  1. (US) An incompetent or inept person.
    • One law enforcement official played down Mr. Defreitas’s ability to carry out an attack, calling him “a sad sack” and “not a Grade A terrorist.”2007 June 3, Cara Buckley, William K. Rashbaum, “4 Men Accused of Plot to Blow Up Kennedy Airport Terminals and Fuel Lines”, in New York Times, retrieved 05 Apr 2015
  2. (US) A perennial failure or victim of misfortune.
    • “Super Sad” takes as its Romeo and Juliet, its Tristan and Iseult, a middle-aged sad sack named Lenny Abramov and a much younger beauty named Eunice Park.2010 July 26, Michiko Kakutani, “Love Found Amid Ruins of Empire”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
    Synonyms:
    defeatist, loser

Questions about sad sacks

What is sad sacks the plural of?
Sad sacks is the plural of sad sack.

Words near sad sacks in the dictionary

  1. sad number
  2. sad numbers
  3. sad panda
  4. sad pandas
  5. sad sack
  6. sad sacks
  7. sad to say
  8. sad tree
  9. sad trees
  10. sad trombone
  11. sad-cited

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